Pasadena

Since the beginning of his career (Jean-Marie Massaud, a 1990 graduate of Paris’ ENSCI-Les Ateliers, Paris Design Institute), he has been working on an wide range of projects, stretching from architecture building to objects, from one-off project to serial ones, from macro environments down to micro contexts. Major brands such as Axor, Cassina, Christofle, Poliform, Toyota have solicited his ability to mix comfort and elegance, zeitgeist and heritage, generosity and distinction.

Beyond these elegant designs, his quest for lightness – in matters of essence – synthesizes three broader stakes: individual and collective fulfillment, economic and industrial efficiency, and environmental concerns. “I’m trying to find an honest, generous path with the idea that, somewhere between the hard economic data, there are users. People.”